Motivational Quotes

Passion

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Passion

I had learnt to seek intensityàmore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Paglia, Camille

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

Randy Pausch

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Smith, Eugene W.

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Johnson, Samuel

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini, Frederico

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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Passion is the trigger of success.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Balzac, Honore De

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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.

Saying

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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Diderot, Denis

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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Will, George F.

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Hoffer, Eric

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Kundera, Milan

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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Miller, Henry

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.